Probably not. All you need is a word list for each language. As long as
you have a font that supports the characters, there aren't any major
issues that would prevent you from generating non-English captchas. Bug
5309 points out a couple minor issues with the captcha script. You may
have to generate word lists for some languages, but I doubt that would
take all summer. It's just a matter of someone sitting down and doing it.

-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)


On 2/5/2011 12:21 PM, Diederik van Liere wrote:
> Isn't this a nice gsoc 2011 project?
> Best
> Diederik
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2011-02-05, at 2:40, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 5 February 2011 05:19, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the subject of bug 5309, "Localize captcha images":
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309
>>> This is the subject of bug 14230, "Add a button to request a new fancy
>>> captcha (code)": https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230
>>> Generally it's a good idea to search Bugzilla before mailing this list. More
>>> often than not, Bugzilla will contain the relevant problem and a discussion
>>> of it.
>>
>>
>> This comes across as dismissive. Saying "we have old bugs filed that
>> no-one is working on" is not a reason to dismiss discussion of a real
>> problem. Tim has noted how badly our captcha solutions suck.
>>
>> (It's a real pity reCaptcha is third-party and proprietary.)
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>

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